SUB-GROUP 1: BUSINESS APPLICATIONS AND TARGETS

JOHAN LAMMERANT, ARCADIS

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Objectives• Discuss and agree on a typology of business applications that

is relevant for selecting an appropriate biodiversity accounting approach (BAA)

• Discuss the need and feasibility of developing a decision tree for BAA selection based on typology of business applications

• Discuss and agree on a typology of targets that BAA could address

• Mapping the BAA to the business applications and targets• Determine the implications for emerging science based targets

and similar initiatives on the measurement approaches and vice versa (this discussion will form the focus of the second workshop in Brazil)

• Identify Common Ground Principles related to the use of the concepts ‘business application’, ‘and targets in biodiversity accounting approaches for business

• Agree on membership and objectives of subgroup

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Common Ground Principles• Business applications vary in terms of their

organisational focus and where relevant in terms of their targets. Targets are voluntary or regulatory and will define the type of stakeholders.

• Biodiversity accounting approaches (BAA), including their metrics, should be appropriate for the type of business application they aim to support, and should be clear about it.

• Different business applications will often require different BAA. As a consequence, one company might need to rely on several BAA dependant on the type of business application the company is interested in.

• BAA should always be considered as supportive tools to facilitate business applications in the field of biodiversity and not as a goal on its own.

• Other??

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What It Could Look Like

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Instructions for Sub-group Discussions• Sub groups: four sub groups (see dots)• Time allowed: 80 minutes until 15:00• Reporting:

• there is a template for your group to populate for each component of each sub-group

• Someone in your group will be designated to fill out the template

• At the end of the break-out session, a group member will verbally report to the plenary on the group discussion – 5 mins only

• Materials: business application table

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Discussion Questions1. Do we agree that the ‘business application’ concept forms a good starting point for business to

select appropriate biodiversity accounting approaches and related metrics?2. Are the measurement approaches clear about the business applications that they can support?3. How are corporate policy commitments being linked into the measurement approaches? Can

lessons be learned across methodologies?1. What policy commitments are being reflected within the measurement approaches?2. Can we articulate a typology of targets that are addressed?3. Are any under-represented?4. What are the implications of the discussions on science based targets for the measurement

approaches for their design4. Can we define a number of common ground principles?5. Common understanding of deliverables and further work required